Olive's and Molotov's

Olive's and Molotov's, after a full day of adventures. I got up early on my day off yesterday and went along on Mitch's Muir Woods and Wine Country tour. It was great fun.
We picked up our last bunch of people and right off the bat they said "where's the wine! Its noon somewhere!" they were hilarious. From the east coast.

Mitch does things entirely different than Tom or Paul so it was fun. He took us to a different overlook to the bridge, it's from the upper west side. I don't know if I can manage to find my way there but I'm going to try because it was a really unique view!
From there it was on to Muir Woods. The usual story there. Mitch and I shared some of his snack food and waited in the sun for the guests to come back. We headed to Larson Family Winery by way of the strawberry stand. That was really cool because Larson sells this Cabernet chocolate sauce and we each got to indulge a little.
We headed to Sonoma Square for lunch and once again Mitch and I had a picnic in the square. It was so nice there yesterday! Sunny and not too windy.
We popped into Homewood and then on to Robledo (they've seen me enough to remember me now). Robledo did our guide party last week too.

signs leading to Larson

On our way back to Highway 101 we stopped in at Ernie's Tin Bar and had a beer. That was a funny stop. The locals were really nice and all the beer in there is really cheap too! They have a rule if you use your cell phone you buy a round for the entire bar so Mitch told us all to leave them outside.
Once we got back to the city I decided to go back to the office with Mitch and then ride into the city with him. He was headed to a place he goes every Monday night, called Olive. Its in the tenderloin and looks totally dive-y outside but you walk in and you're transported! It was great fun. The door to get into this place looks like the surrounding walls too so it was difficult at first to even get in there.

Ernie's Tin Bar

I don't drink martini's usually so I let the bartender pick one for me. Gin martini with green olives. I didn't used to like green olives until Tony and I had them in England one day. I nursed that martini for hours too, it was not really my thing.
Josh, who I'd met at the concert the other night decided to join us for a drink. That was pretty funny. Mitch kept asking him all these personal questions trying to find stuff out for me. From there Josh and I went to Molotov's on Haight and had a drink. He did actually, I didn't, I'd had enough already. But we talked a little bit more, turns out we have a lot in common! He travels a lot for his job (he leaves Weds for 3 weeks in Germany) he likes beer too so we could talk about all the different ones we'd had. It was fun. He's cajun. So that is interesting. I told him I liked the chicory coffee from Louisiana and he just laughed. Its hard to find here.
It was a long night but fun. I was so tired all I could do was yawn so Josh finally gave up and we went our separate ways. Molotov's is as cool inside as I thought. A local place with a crazy jukebox full of bands I'd never heard of. Its famous for that I guess.